Consultant engineers White Young Green is planning to double the size of its West Midland operations following its involvement with a £11.2 million project with Birmingham University.

The company, which currently employs around 40 people at its site near Five Ways, is moving to larger offices in the Jewellery Quarter next month.

The location will allow the firm to increase the number of design engineers to more than 100 over three years.

Keith Ashford, director of the Birmingham office of White Young Green, said: "Some of this will be organic growth in our existing mechanical and electrical building services team, the civil and structural engineers and project management group.

"But we are also looking to add environmental engineers and management service and planning departments.

"We are responding to a host of opportunities in Birmingham, and although we are looking to more than double in size, this is not the ceiling and we could even grow more from there."

Mr Ashford said the company, which has 24 offices around the UK, had identified a number of potential growth areas around the West Midlands.

White Young Green is hoping to increase turnover from the Birmingham office from £2 million to £4 million following the staff increase.

He said: "We have got a good track record in health and education sector, and we have a number of framework agreements with Advantage West Midlands.

"We have been involved with the redevelopment projects at Longbridge and Pebble Mill and there are a lot of areas we can get involved."

The company is working with Birmingham University on the civil and structural designs for the new School of Sport and Exercise Science on the west campus in Edgbaston.

The design and build scheme will see the complete redevelopment of the area and see the frame, foundations and floor slabs of two existing buildings augmented by a new reinforced concrete frame.

The new laboratory block required a high degree of air tightness as well as a larger than normal amount of mechanical and electrical services. The new centre will comprise a communal teaching area, consisting of a 110 seat lecture theatre, and will be home to the administrative and teaching staffs.

A three-storey extension will be built for laboratories.

Prof Doug Carroll, had of the school of sport and exercise sciences, said: "Research in this area will be boosted with the completion of the new centre ' s physiology, psychology, biochemistry and exercise laboratories."

Peter Brooks, who will be running the project, said: "Our success is a reflection of the efforts and good spirit of the whole design team and we are all very pleased to be playing our part in the development of this facility for the University of Birmingham."